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Efforts to create truly smart cities in Arab nations have been uneven so far and recent reports on government services leave no doubt there's room for improvement.“Government services may be good in the big metropolitan cities, but if you are living...
Article - 10/31/2014
Active Region(s): Main
Category: Economic development, Citizen engagement, Connectivity
Almost wherever you go in Africa, it’s rare to find electricity. And where there’s power, it’s expensive and unreliable. Council Lead Partner Electricite de France -- EDF -- is trying to change that with an innovative approach that’s already...
Article - 10/31/2014
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Built environment, Economic development, Energy
Mississippi-based Camgian Microsystems, a Council Associate Partner, this week officially released its new Internet of Things (IoT) platform – Egburt -- which aims to revolutionize the way cities and other enterprises collect and monitor their...
Article - 10/31/2014
Active Region(s): Main
Category: Built environment, Analytics, Connectivity, Instrumentation and control
Every so often an announcement comes along that signals a tipping point, a point in time where several trends converge to cause a market inflection. Such is the case with the news that -- over the next five years or so -- Florida Power & Light...
Article - 10/30/2014
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Economic development, Energy, Instrumentation and control
Council Lead Partner IBM has launched a series of humanitarian efforts to help contain the spread of Ebola in Africa. They include:A citizen engagement and analytics system in Sierra Leone that enables communities affected by Ebola to...
Article - 10/29/2014
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Health and human services, Analytics, Citizen engagement, Connectivity
An engineer by trade, Cisco's Cliff Thomas sees "a big wave coming" – and he says its coming hard.He's talking about the Internet of Things (IoT) really starting to kick in with more and more data from sensors and also from citizens. The goal, says...
Article - 10/29/2014
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Citizen engagement, Connectivity
Alstom has won a $1.2 million award from the U.S. Department of Energy to improve grid resiliency through the advancement of microgrid technology. In partnership with the Philadelphia Water Department and Philadelphia’s public-private economic...
Article - 10/29/2014
Active Region(s): Main
Category: Built environment, Energy, Connectivity, Instrumentation and control
Scroll down for short takes from Council members…MasterCard opens NYC innovation hubThe global payments and technology company is housing its emerging payments teams in the heart of the technology community in New York City's Flatiron District. The...
Article - 10/24/2014
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Energy, Payments, Connectivity
Ooredoo, the communications giant operating across markets in the Middle East, North Africa and Southeast Asia, has challenged government and industry leaders to address infrastructure roadblocks to enable the next billion people to connect to the...
Article - 10/24/2014
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Compassionate Cities
Category: Upward Mobility
A London based property company is on a mission to find the next smart city and Internet of Things (IoT) technologies. Canary Wharf Group announced this week it is putting £300,000 into its Cognicity Challenge – a series of themed international...
Article - 10/24/2014
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Built environment, Transportation, Computing resources, Connectivity